flooding in the western u.s. state of utah. the potential exists for potential heavy rain in the u.s. this week. let s bring in our meteorologist for more information. how much rain are we talking about? several inches of rain over the next three to five days. near the border of arizona and utah, on tuesday this week, there was flash flooding that unfortunately led to roughly about 20 fatalities in a few different incidences including at zion national park and the hilldale community. what you re looking at to my left here is some of the home footage of the mudslides that occurred because of the water rushing down the canyons. take a look at my graphics. we re focused in on the southwest. just a bit of geographical reference, the baja of mexico, california, arizona and utah. this bright shading of coloring, that s actually the moisture starting to settle in to the southwestern portions of the
collins has passed away. her publicist said she died of breast cancer. she was diagnosed 6 1/2 years ago at stage 4 and kept it largely private. she s known for scintillating tales of royalty and super wealthy. she was a trailblazer for women in fiction. something she talked about on cnn four years ago. women have to look after themselves. they have to have a career, they have to have a passion in life and they cannot live their life just through a man. i think that s so important. my message is girls can do anything. because i fell will from school at 15. i ve achieved all this by myself. i think that s a good message to women. huge achievements. she had 30 new york times best sellers. jackie collins was 77 years old. still to come, heavy rain forecast to hit america s southwest. it may be too much for the
united states. that s going to be eventually moved further and further northward impacting the southwestern u.s. that s going to bring the possibility of heavy rain and flash flooding exists across this area. remember, we re under a four-year drought in california. and even into southern nevada, parts of arizona as well. the ground is extremely hard. any time we get these slow-moving thunderstorms moving across this region, they dump so much rain with the ground so hardened as it is, it doesn t have time to soak in. it finds its own level, culminates in the valleys and crevices and eventually culminates into a flowing wall of water leadsing to the possibility of dee strugs like this. wiping out anything in its path. including vehicles across roads. this was a situation in hilldale near the border of utah and arizona. the rainfall just culminating in
might air it in the next hour. we have seen some weird sports stories and superstitions in the past. this is probably the strangest by a close shave. you can call him half beard tanbury. half his face clean shaven, the other side a scraggly beard. he believes it s his good luck charm. he might be right because on july 21st he set the record for high jumping. good morning, ainsley and everybody at home. it s not exactly a beach day across parts of central florida. heavy rain forecast out there. temperatures are actually relatively cool even for florida standards. 82 for your high temperature today in the city of tampa and other areas across the gulf coast. hit the beach, though. because temperatures out there will be very summer like, climbing into the 90s. dangerous amounts of heat to
ainsley. good to be here with you. hello everybody at home. take you to the radar and show you the massive storm system. producing areas of rain over texas in okay he can oh and missouri. these areas are hammered by rainfall over the last 24-hours with the slow moving storm system. further north and east across virginia and the northeast you are going to be dealing with some of the storms rolling through. you will need the umbrellas. you remember earlier this past spring we had significant flooding out there. we had areas hit hard and potential flooding. to the east of oklahoma city parts of texas as well. they extend from washington to texas. heavy rain forecast with the storm system. we sus speblth some severe storms to develop today.